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Started August 20th, 2008 · 3 replies · Latest reply by Simon_Lacelle 16 years, 3 months ago
This Montreal band uses sounds of nature (river flowing, birds, fire, logs being hit with an axe, wood pieces being thrown, canoe as a bass drum hit by a bunch of plants tied together attached to a bass drum pedal, etc.) as integral parts of their really upbeat songs! Check them out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5WS21ThNA
THE NATIONAL PARCS
Timbervision
The National Parcs, veterans of Montreal's celebrated Freeworm, have gone into the wild and come back with a look and sound that's as big as the world.
The three young men were born in the backwoods of Quebec, Malawi and B.C., but bred on Montreal streets buzzing with the noise of every nation on earth. For this groundbreaking CD/DVD album, they strip back down to basics, returning to their roots in the bush. The great outdoors becomes their studio, and their songs come alive with all-natural samples of wood splitting, sand slipping, paddles slapping, water dripping. Their cameras and microphones are trained on the trackless woods around them, but their ears have been trained on Grime and Hip Hop, Afrobeat and Baile Funk, American Spirituals and Malian Blues. The resulting Timbervision tracks are an invitation for the world to dance, starting with the half-remembered hum of our own backyards and smuggling in the best that the world has to offer.
The band first joined forces for Freeworm's 2001 live shows, which pioneered their fascination with grafting exotic and broken beats onto the rhythms of maple forests and canoeing. This was the year the city first got out of its seats for the trio's infectious found-sound and found-image stage experience: their Club Soda performance at the Montreal Electronic Groove Festival won them the MIMI "Show of the Year" award. Two Freeworm albums later, they're making the partnership official as The National Parcs. The FrenchEnglish mash-up of the band's new name suggests the range of their influences, while the parkland theme is a nod to preserving what matters.
lol. I didn't say they used ONLY sound from the outdoors... but they did mike the synth coming out of an amp in an open field.